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Welcome to the January 2018 Issue of CR5 

CR5 is your local community magazine delivered FREE of charge every month 

to 11,500 homes in Coulsdon, Old Coulsdon, Netherne, Hooley & Chipstead. 

Welcome to the January 2018 issue of 

CR5 Magazine. 

I hope you all had a very enjoyable and 

relaxing Christmas break. 

No doubt many of you will already have 

made your New Year resolutions - if Yes, 

wishing you all the determination and 

luck to follow it through :-) 

We have some interesting reads to offer 

this month, Congratulations are also in 

order for Ken Mead (p78) and Jack Lakin 

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January. 

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CONTENTS: 

Welcoming in the Old New Year 8 

One hundred Years On 16 

Furry Friends Animal Rescue 24 

Finance: Mobile Phone PLans in 2018 28 

CONGRATULATIONS to Jack Lakin 32 

CR5 Recipe: Chorizo & Prawn Paella 32 

CR5 Health: Sleep, vital for good health 40 

Gardeners Rescue 44 

Quirky Britain: Cat Cafes 48 

Book Review: Into the New Year 56 

Growing up in a digital world 62 

Getting back into Hot Water 64 

Coulsdon & Purley Debating Society 72 

CR5 Technology: New Year revolutions 76 

Old Coulsdon D-Day Hero receives award 78 

CR5 Motoring: McLaren 720S 80 

CR5 Recipe: Baked Pears with cinnamon oat topping 81 

CR5 Travel: The French Ardennes 82 

CR5 Codeword 83 

Don’t drive into troule abroad 83 

Coulsdon Library 84 

Pets: Cat Flu 84 

CR5 Word Wheel 85 

CR5 Review of the Year Quiz 85 

CR5 Kids Page 86 

Old Coulsdon Camera Club 87 

RSPB87 

CR5 Just for Fun Crossword 104 

Trip Down Memory Lane 89 

New Year Resolutions 89 

CR5 Community Pages 90-97 

Index of Advertisers 98 

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Welcoming in the Old New Year By Catherine Rose 

As we bring in 2018 with toasts, 

fireworks and a rousing rendition 

of Auld Lang Syne, it’s perhaps 

worth remembering that New 

Year has been a bit of a moveable 

feast. 

It is not written in stone that New 

Year be celebrated on 1st January. 

With the now well-known and 

colourful carnival that takes place 

in London, most of us are familiar 

with the Chinese New Year that 

takes place a few weeks after our 

own. But did you know that some 

people in Europe also mark the 

start of New Year a little later than 

we do? 

The 2018 Chinese New Year will 

take place on 16th February, which 

is the 23rd day of the twelfth 

month in the Chinese lunar calendar. 

A national holiday in China, 

celebrations feature processions 

with drums, Chinese dragons, 

firecrackers to ward off evil spirits, 

and decorations in signature red 

for good luck, including banners 

and Chinese lanterns. 

The Chinese New Year is also 

known as the Spring Festival, and 

celebrations which mark the end 

of winter and the start of a new 

crop year have been common 

since the pagan era, when New 

Year was traditionally observed 

on 22nd March at the time of the 

vernal equinox. 

Today, in common with the rest 

of Europe and most of the world, 

we all use the Gregorian calendar 

originally set up by Pope Gregory 

XIII in 1582. Europe universally 

adopted this calendar in the 18th 

century, although Russia was 

behind, changing over to it in 1918 

after the Bolshevik Revolution. 

Previously, the older Julian calendar, 

introduced by Julius Caesar in 

46BC, had been observed. According 

to this calendar, New Year’s 

Day falls in the middle of January, 

after the end of the Advent fast. 

The Russian Orthodox Church 

continues to abide by the Julian 

calendar and although it is not recognised 

as a national holiday, the 

‘Old New Year’ is still celebrated 

by Orthodox Christians in central 

and eastern Europe on 13th and 

14th January. 

These countries include Russia, 

Ukraine, Belarus, Bosnia and 

Herzegovina, Georgia, Uzbekistan, 

Montenegro, Azerbaijan, Moldova, 

Macedonia, and Serbia (as well as 

in Greece), comprising Orthodox 

Christians across countries that 

together once formed the USSR, 

where celebrating the Old New 

Year had previously been banned 

by the Communist regime. 

14th January also coincides with 

St Basil’s Day, and the festival is 

marked with feasting, bonfires 

and fireworks. In Macedonia, 

people gather outside their 

houses to share food and drink 

and to sing traditional songs. It 

is customary to eat unleavened 

(pita) bread with a coin inside (or 

dumplings with a hidden charm in 

Russia). Much like our Christmas 

pudding tradition, whoever finds 

the coin will have good luck for 

the New Year. And in Serbia, the 

Church puts on firework displays. 

The customary feast includes a 

range of pork dishes in the hope 

of securing a good farming year, 

the traditional St Basil celebratory 

dinner being a whole roasted pig. 

Another St Basil’s day morning tradition 

has been to eat ceremonial 

porridge that has been cooked 

overnight by the oldest woman in 

the house. The porridge would be 

prepared and put into the oven in 

the early hours of New Year’s Eve 

(13th), and the condition of the 

porridge the following morning 

would signify whether the year 

was to be a good one or not. Thick 

crusted porridge was auspicious, 

but thin pale porridge or a cracked 

pot spelled disaster for the 

household. 

Observing New Year in the middle 

of January is not uncommon and 

other countries across the world 

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have their equivalents. Berber 

tribes in North Africa (Morocco 

and Libya) mark New Year 

according to the Berber calendar, 

which roughly coincides with the 

Julian one. India also celebrates at 

this time, following the perceived 

change in the sun’s path from 

south to north, in a festival known 

as Makar Sankranti. And parts of 

Switzerland see in New Year under 

the umbrella of St Sylvester’s Day. 

It can be said that no one knows 

how to welcome in New Year like 

the Scots but although Scottish 

Hogmanay on the eve of 31st 

December is perhaps the most 

famous revelry of the New Year, 

the old Gaelic custom was to welcome 

New Year on 12th January. 

In Wales, this is still known as Hen 

Galan, and there are traditional 

Welsh songs associated with it 

that are sung today. 

The Gaelic year was broken up 

into quarters: earrach (spring), 

samhradh (summer), foghar (autumn) 

and geamhradh (winter), 

each marked by its own feast day. 

A few parts of Scotland continue 

to celebrate the Old New Year, 

known as Oidhche Chullaig or 

Oidhche Challainn where children 

would traditionally visit each home 

in their village reciting a Gaelic 

New Year blessing while carrying a 

caisein-uchd – a torch made from 

the breast bone of a sheep dipped 

in tallow. 

Used to light the householder’s 

fire, it was then handed around to 

each member of the family who 

had to circle it above their head 

three times for luck. Unfortunately 

for some, if the flame died, it 

meant that the person would not 

live to see the New Year out! 

In Burghead in the Moray Firth, 

residents continue to celebrate 

Old New Year with the ‘burning of 

the clavie’ – a torch made of barrel 

staves, which is lit on the evening 

of 11th January. 

January can often be a cold and 

dispiriting month following on 

from our Christmas and New Year 

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One Hundred Years On 

‘It’ll all be over by Christmas’ they’d said. But 

Christmas had come and gone four times, and 

the war was no closer to an end. January 1918 

saw the Great War continue on the Western 

Front much as it had for the preceding three 

years, with bitter cold and snow making life 

on the front line even more arduous, though 

at least the all-pervading mud had frozen. 

From our distance now, a hundred 

years away, we can see that the war will 

finish before another Christmas is celebrated 

amongst the barbed wire, but to the Tommy 

in the trenches it seemed unlikely. Spring 

of 1918 saw the German forces launch an 

immensely successful offensive that pushed 

their armies 60 kilometres through the Allied 

lines. Now within range of Paris, they began 

to shell the city, and much of the civilian 

population panicked and fled. Some Germans 

began to think that victory was within their 

grasp at last, and quite possibly, quietly, some 

amongst the Allies may have thought so too. 

It didn’t happen. Overstretched, 

without tanks and artillery in enough numbers 

to help consolidate their gains, the Germans 

lost all the ground they’d won and by the 20th 

July were back where they had started, 

having lost well over a quarter of a million 

troops in the process. Let that sink in for a 

while. A quarter of a million men. 250,000. 

To try and put that in some sort of modern 

day context, British Military Forces in 

Afghanistan lost 456 men between 2001 and 

2015. Each of those was undoubtedly a 

personal tragedy, leaving behind wives, 

friends, children, parents. 

But imagine the impact of that 

multiplied by over five hundred times. 

In a matter of a few months, not 14 years. 

Anti-war sentiment in Germany, already 

growing, turned into vocal opposition, and 

on top of a successful counter-offensive by 

the Allies in August, the War finally turned 

and road to peace, at least in Western Europe, 

was at last visible. 

At 5am on the 11th November, 1918 on a 

train at Le Francport, near Compiègne in 

Northern France, the armistice was signed, 

and a ceasefire between Germany and the 

Allies came into place at 11am. But the war 

didn’t finish then. 

For Britain and its Empire, we 

remained legally ‘at war’ with Germany until 

January 1920. And with the Ottoman Empire 

(Turkey) until August 1924. 

‘The War to end all Wars’ as it was known, 

was nothing of the kind. The collapse of not 

just the Russian Empire, but the German and 

Austro-Hungarian Empires too, saw fighting 

continue across Europe and Asia for years to 

come. 

And as the guns of the Western Front fell 

silent, another killer stalked the world. 

A strain of the illness popularly called Spanish 

Flu took advantage of the masses of troops 

moving around the world to create an 

epidemic of incredible proportions. Worse 

than the Black Death or plague of medieval 

times, the death toll was somewhere 

between 50 and 100 million or 6% of the 

world’s population, wiped out between 1918 

and 1919. In a Britain already trying to come to 

terms with its losses from the War, a further 

250,000 people died. 

So, if sometimes, with all the talk 

of Trump, ISIS, North Korea, terrorist attacks 

and Brexit the immediate future looks a little 

bleak, then cast your mind back to what they 

had to deal with just a hundred years ago. 

We’ve got it easy… 

Happy New Year. 

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Labrador. 

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would like him to know the true feeling of belonging 

in a home, loved and adored for life. 

Oscar arrived into rescue as a tiny puppy of about 

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He was successfully rehomed and life was good 

for 5 years. He was well socialised and well 

trained in a family environment. 

However, circumstances changed and his adoptive 

owners attempted to rehome him themselves 

without my knowledge. 

If an animal becomes unwanted from here, then 

we give back up for life so they did need to come 

back to us. 

He was rehomed to The Isle of Wight and this is 

where things got bad for Oscar. 

The new owners boyfriend was witnessed throwing 

him down the stairs, punching and kicking him 

and he even tried to hang him, but because it was 

all hearsay, the police were powerless to act. 

One evening he fired a lit firework at him and he 

bolted and that is when the islands dog warden 

was able to pick up as a stray. 

Luckily his microchip had not had the details 

changed and the emergency contact number is 

always mine, so they were able to contact me and 

bring me up to speed. 

Of course, I agreed he must come back here 

immediately!! 

The police intercepted the return of the dog and 

convinced the owner to sign him over to them. 

He was then kept safely with the RSPCA on the 

island and an emergency transport run happened 

to get him back to us. 

Oscar has been back with us a few months and 

this abuse has taken it's toll to a degree. 

Whilst he is not aggressive, he gets scared if he 

feels you are telling him off and will bark and ask 

you to back off. 

This is as far as it goes. He is very restrained, but 

you can see how he is scared of being hurt again. 

We deal with this by immediately relaxing the 

situation and making it into a game. This cheers 

him up especially as he doesn't feel that he is in 

any sort of trouble. 

Oscar would love to meet a neutered friend. He 

loves living with other dogs and keeps losing his 

friends as they are rehomed. 

He meets other dogs well when out on his walks, 

although he is bouncy and can be clumsy with 

these meet and greets. His recall is very good. 

He loves to play ball. In fact he loves any sort of 

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great time doing it! He is not destructive in the 

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because of his past we are looking for an adult 

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the prospect of tiny kiddies and although there is 

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than renewing each month, 

however, because you’re tied in to 

a specific timescale, but it doesn’t 

offer as much flexibility. 

Pay-as-you-go (PAYG) 

If you don’t use your mobile phone 

very much, pay-as-you-go helps to 

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card or top-up card when you 

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and you don’t need to be creditchecked 

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When you’re considering these 

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about your phone usage – do you 

use it mainly for calls and texts, do 

you browse the internet, and how 

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handset? 

DATA ROLLOVER 

If you don’t use your full data 

allowance each month, you 

can buy a plan that lets you 

rollover what is left, and use it 

the following month. So which 

networks offer this facility? At 

the time of writing, iD Mobile, 

O2, Virgin Media, Vodafone, 

Freedompop and Sky Mobile all 

offer plans with data rollover. 

It isn’t a new concept, but until 

recently providers have only 

allowed you to rollover your data 

from the previous month. 

Now, however, Sky Mobile has 

come up with a very useful 

online ‘piggybank’ facility that 

lets you store your unused data 

at no additional cost for up to 

three years. You’ll need to have 

a minimum of 1GB saved in the 

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accessed, and Sky let you roll back 

data in 1GB volumes. 

FLEXIBLE SIM-ONLY DEALS 

Giffgaff ‘s ‘goodybags’ offer 

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A goodybag is basically your 

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data, and it lasts for one month. 

This means you can change your 

goodybag if it doesn’t offer quite 

enough minutes, for example, or 

you need more data that month. 

Current SIM-only deals (October 

2017)¹ at Giffgaff include: 

• £5 per month: 100MB data; 150 

minutes; 500 texts 

• £12 per month: 4GB data; 750 

minutes; unlimited texts 

• £18 per month: 9GB data; 2,000 

minutes; unlimited texts 

Three’s ‘Go Binge’ 

The Three network offers a useful 

‘Go Binge’ facility with some of 

their mobile phone deals. This 

allows you to stream music 

and films from Netflix, Deezer, 

SoundCloud and TVPlayer without 

using up your monthly allowance, 

as long as you have some of your 

data allowance left. (If adverts are 

shown on these apps, they may 

use up your allowance.) 

Current SIM-only 12-month 

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Pay-as-you-go (PAYG) 

If you’re not a heavy mobile phone 

user, or are worried about being 

credit-checked, a pay-as-you-go 

deal may be the best choice. You 

can opt for ‘traditional’ PAYG or a 

bundle of data, minutes and texts. 

As an example, PAYG deals from 

Asda Mobile³ currently include: 

• 8p per minute for calls to any UK 

mobile or UK landline 

• 4p per text 

• 5p per MB of data 

Pay-as-you-go bundles from Tesco 

Mobile⁴ include: 

• £5 for 150 minutes 

• £5 for 5,000 texts 

• £10 for 2 GB data 

As you can see, there’s a wealth 

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Health By Alison Runham www.alison.runham.co.uk 

Sleep: Vital for Good Mental and Physical Health 

We’ve known, vaguely, for a long 

time that losing sleep can make us 

struggle to concentrate and keep 

smiling. Even Shakespeare knew 

the value of sleep, describing it as 

the ‘balm of hurt minds’ and the 

‘chief nourisher in life’s feast’. 

But research is increasingly proving 

that a lack of good quality 

sleep can seriously damage our 

physical and mental health. More 

than 20 large-scale studies have 

proved conclusively that the shorter 

your sleep, the shorter your life 

- and it’s not hard to see why… 

HOW A LACK OF SLEEP AFFECTS 

PHYSICAL HEALTH 

Weight gain and obesity 

Research shows that insufficient 

sleep is a factor in weight gain 

and obesity. This is probably because 

sleep deprivation reduces 

levels of leptin (the hunger-inhibiting 

‘you’re full’ hormone) and 

increases levels of ghrelin (the 

hunger-stimulating hormone). It’s 

a vicious circle, too, as you’re more 

prone to sleep problems if you’re 

overweight. 

Increased diabetes risk 

People who usually sleep less than 

five hours a night, particularly 

those lacking deep or ‘slow-wave’ 

sleep, are at increased risk of developing 

diabetes. Their body processes 

glucose differently, reacting 

as though suffering from insulin 

resistance (a condition in which 

your body doesn’t react properly 

to insulin). Tiredness causes you 

to secrete more stress hormones 

(e.g. cortisol), making it harder 

for insulin to function correctly 

and leaving excess glucose in your 

bloodstream. 

Increased cancer risk 

Professor Matthew Walker, author 

of Why We Sleep, says that after 

just one night of only four or five 

hours’ sleep, your natural cancer-attacking 

cells drop by 70%. US 

researchers have discovered that 

night workers produce 80% less of 

a by-product of DNA tissue repair, 

indicating their bodies aren’t carrying 

out their natural overnight cell 

restoration. 

Increased Alzheimer’s risk 

During deep sleep, amyloid deposits 

(a cell-killing toxin that 

accumulates in the brains of Alzheimer’s 

sufferers) are ‘cleaned’ 

away. Without sufficient sleep, 

these plaques build up, especially 

in deep-sleep-generating regions – 

meaning you sleep even less. It’s a 

vicious circle. 

Increased risk of heart disease, 

heart attack and stroke 

Persistent sleep deprivation causes 

increased heart rate, blood pressure 

and inflammation, which can 

all put extra strain on your heart. 

Over-45s sleeping less than six 

hours a night are 200% more likely 

to have a heart attack or stroke. 

Weakened immunity 

Sleep deprivation damages production 

and distribution of immune 

factors. 

Reduced fertility and libido 

Research has revealed that insufficient 

sleep can cause lower libido 

in men and women, and reduce 

the secretion of reproductive hormones. 

HOW A LACK OF SLEEP AFFECTS 

MENTAL HEALTH 

Increased risk of depression and 

anxiety 


Many studies have linked anxiety 

and depression to poor quality 

and insufficient sleep. Daniel Freeman, 

co-author of major research 

on the link between mental health 

and sleep published in Lancet Psychiatry, 

says that having insomnia 

doubles your chances of developing 

depression and that treating 

insomnia is shown to reduce depression. 

Increased risk of paranoia, hallucinations 

and psychotic episodes 

The same study also showed that 

when people sleep better, they’re 

far less likely to suffer from paranoia, 

hallucinations or psychotic 

episodes. General mental health 

is much improved in people given 

therapy to improve their sleep. 

Reduced memory, concentration 

and reaction times 

The odd late night isn’t a problem, 

but after persistently poor sleep, 

your reaction times, concentration 

and decision-making decline significantly. 

This can affect not only 

your health and safety, but that of 

others you work with, care for – or 

drive past. 

Studies show that sleep deficiency 

harms your driving ability as much 

as, or more than, being drunk. 

Four hours’ sleep? You’re 11.5 

times more likely to be involved in 

a crash. Driver fatigue is estimated 

to be responsible for around 

100,000 car accidents and 1,500 

deaths each year. 

A CHANGE OF ATTITUDE 

“No aspect of our biology is left 

unscathed by sleep deprivation,” 

says Professor Walker. He believes 

we have “stigmatised sleep with 

the label of laziness” because we 

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Gardener’s 

Resolve… 

by Pippa Greenwood 

Happy New Year! Now that 2018 

is here, what are your garden 

resolutions for the year ahead? 

Here are my suggestions… 

RE-CYCLE POTS 

Save all the pots and trays you 

get when buying plants and rinse 

them out to use next time you 

need one. Store the pots away 

from sunlight to prevent the 

plastic disintegrating. 

COVER IT UP! 

Make a resolution to dry off 

and cover up garden furniture 

once the summer is over. Left 

out there throughout the worst 

of the weather, pretty well all 

furniture will take a serious 

battering – from rain, cold, ice 

and, in some cases, even fungi! 

Shop around for furniture covers 

that won’t break the bank or, 

better still, store the furniture in 

a shed or garage if you have one. 

Stored properly, it will last much 

longer and you’ll save yourself a 

fortune. 

GROW YOUR OWN 

Aim to grow more of your own 

fresh fruit, vegetables and herbs. 

This could be buying a couple 

of tomato plants for the first 

time, or creating a small herb 

planter, or it could be larger 

scale and more complex plans if 

you’re already big on grow-yourown. 

Don’t forget that there’s 

a great choice of UK-grown 

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COMPOST MORE 

Once you get in the swing of it, 

composting becomes second 

nature. Make sure you include 

kitchen waste such as vegetable 

peelings, apple cores. The 

amount of extra compost you’ll 

generate will be well worthwhile. 

Many local councils offer a good 

deal on basic plastic composters. 

USE THAT SPACE! 

If you have a cold frame, porch, 

conservatory or greenhouse, 

put it to use! Far too many of 

these potentially great gardening 

structures are left abandoned 

for much of the year, perhaps 

just being graced with a handful 

of tomatoes for the summer 

months. Any sort of protected 

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and when you can grow it. So 

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Make use of any organic matter 

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garden compost, the used 

compost from a seasonal bedding 

display or growing bag, or leaf 

mould, make it into mulch! 

Applied a couple of inches or 

more deep over the soil surface, 

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soil’s ability to conserve moisture 

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time and water) and may also 

help to keep weeds at bay. A winwin 

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When you’re looking through the 

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before you buy. I know I’m not 

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very easy to order more seeds 

than you’ll ever be able to sow 

and plants that you’ll never be 

able to squeeze into your garden. 

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Make sure you recycle your 

Christmas tree. Real trees can 

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garden centres and councils 

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Quirky Britain 

Cat Cafés 

“An Americano and two 

tabby cats, please … “ 

As you sip your skinny latte in Lady 

Dinah’s Cat Emporium, you never 

know who might appear on your 

lap. It could be fluffy ‘Petra’, soulful 

‘Tink’ or any of the other 

celebrity rescue cats (with 

hundreds of Twitter followers) 

who live in the quirky East London 

café. In this strange combination 

of restaurant and luxury cats’ 

home, the feline inhabitants can 

exercise on a giant ‘hamster 

wheel’, scamper along walkways 

or snooze on various raised 

platforms around the venue as 

customers eat and drink. 

AN A-MEWS-ING TREND? 

Lady Dinah’s - the first ever cat 

café to open in Britain - was the 

brainchild of Australian Lauren 

Pears, who set out to create a 

relaxing retreat where young 

professionals living in rented 

accommodation (where pets are 

not allowed) could interact with 

the resident moggies. Although 

Lauren’s original vision was to 

create a peaceful urban retreat 

where customers could relax 

with a book, chat with friends or 

even hold meetings, she hadn’t 

bargained for the enthusiasm with 

which British cat lovers would 

greet her new enterprise. 

Within the first two weeks of 

opening in 2014 Lauren had received 

a staggering 20,000 

bookings, and the café turned out 

to be anything but the tranquil 

enclave she had originally imagined. 

It has since become more of 

a tourist attraction than a place 

where local office workers can pet 

a friendly feline, and she has now 

been forced to limit visits to 90 

minutes to accommodate all of her 

customers. 

Although the world’s first cat café 

opened in Taiwan in 1998, Lauren 

Pears was ahead of the curve 

when she started making plans 

to open Lady Dinah’s in London. 

“After I did some research, I saw 

there were a few popping up in 

Europe and spotted that a trend 

was on its way,” she recently told 

the website thisismoney.co.uk. 

But since 2014 a number of copycat 

ventures (no pun intended) have 

sprung up in towns and cities 

across the country. You can now 

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Brighton, Bristol, Cardiff, Derby, 

Leeds, Manchester, Nottingham, 

Newcastle, Oldham, Oxford, 

Aberdeen or Edinburgh, and it’s 

almost inevitable that we’ll see 

more of these cat-themed eateries 

opening up in future. 

CRUEL OR KIND? 

Nottingham’s Kitty Café which 

has recently opened a second 

branch in Leeds - offers a home 

to abandoned cats, rescue cats 

and cats with medical issues that 

need some TLC. It also acts as a 

rehoming centre, so customers 

who bond with their furry table 

companion can join the café’s 

adoption programme with a view 

to taking their favourite feline 

home. 

Cat cafés are big business, but not 

everyone feels the love. There has 

been a lot of criticism from animal 

charities, including Cats Protection 

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by Kate McLelland 

Cats Protection refuses to accept 

donations from cat cafés due 

to concerns about “the welfare 

implications of having a number of 

cats in a limited space with groups 

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as solitary animals and generally 

do not choose to live in social 

groups.” 

The RSPCA has equally strong 

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it considers to be an unsuitable 

environment. In its Science Group 

review of 2016 the charity writes: 

“Our aim is to dissuade new 

cafés from opening and to advise 

those already in operation of the 

appropriate and necessary steps 

that should be taken to minimise 

potential feline stress. We have 

also raised our concerns for the 

welfare of cats living in cat cafés 

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However most café owners claim 

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Most cafés provide a set of rules 

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everything from hand-washing to 

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Books about 

awakenings and 

new beginnings 

to see you into 

2018. 

The Power – Naomi Alderman 

Not a new release this one, 

but well worth a read if you 

missed it back in 2016. Teenage 

girls across the world discover 

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Me. You. A Diary – Dawn 

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This book combines writing 

your own diary with taking 

a peek into Dawn French’s. 

She shares her thoughts each 

month, along with various insights 

into her life, and invites 

you to do the same. The idea 

is that, by the end of the year, 

you’ll have a ‘fatter, scruffier 

book that is written by me but 

totally personalised by you.’ 

With various writing prompts, 

this book makes keeping a diary 

altogether easier. The perfect 

start to the new year. 

How to be Champion: My Autobiography 

– Sarah Millican 

Sarah Millican’s autobiography 

is like a glorious ramble 

through her life. The book is 

split into chapters with headers 

such as ‘Things I’ve Been 

Bullied For’, ‘Why I’m Not A 

Criminal’ and ‘My Love Of 

Stationery’. It’s part autobiography 

and part self-help guide. 

Nothing is off limits, so it’s 

probably not the book for you 

if you’re not keen on swear 

words or reading about bodily 

functions. However, if you 

want a book that’ll make you 

feel good about yourself and 

is snort-your-tea-out-of-yournose-funny, 

buy it now. 

History of Wolves – Emily 

Fridlund 

14 year old Linda lives in an 

ex-commune out in the woods. 

Lonely, socially-inexperienced 

and left to her own devices 

by her parents, Linda craves 

friends and a sense of belonging. 

When a new family moves 

nearby, she befriends the 

young mother and regularly 

babysits the four year old child. 

But she soon discovers that all 

is not right. The choices Linda 

has to make to keep her new 

found family could have tragic 

consequences. Compelling 

reading. 

The Art of Hiding – Amanda 

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Nina seems to have the perfect 

life, but it soon starts to unravel 

when her husband is killed in 

a car crash. Left with two children 

to care for, a mountain of 

debt, and the growing realisation 

that her husband wasn’t 

all he seemed, Nina has to fight 

to rebuild a life for herself and 

her family. An enjoyable easy 

read – perfect for long winter’s 

nights. 

Mrs Osmond – John Banville 

Banville picks up the story of 

Isabel Osmond (née Archer) 

from where we left her in the 

classic The Portrait of a Lady. 

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appeal most to fans of Henry 

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enough of the original story 

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Like it or loathe it, we’re 

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before they’ve mastered riding 

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Apps such as Habyts (www. 

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extra screen time as a reward 

for chores and good behaviour. 

Teenagers need to learn how 

to manage their own time, and 

how to protect themselves 

online. So you may want to 

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they should do if they stumble 

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them feel uncomfortable. 

SOCIAL MEDIA AND INSTANT 

MESSAGING 

One in five 13-18 year olds say 

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if they end up missing out on 

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on social media, and what to 

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No safeguards you put in place 

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your child about online safety. 

ONLINE LEARNING 

There are some really fun, 

educational sites and apps that 

might help to tear your child 

away from YouTube, including: 

Scratch (www.scratch.mit. 

edu) helps you child learn basic 

coding. Users can create simple 

games, animations and stories. 

Cbeebies (www.bbc.co.uk/ 

cbeebies) has a huge number of 

online games, puzzles and other 

activities. The Alphablocks 

School Words Quiz, for 

example, helps pre-schoolers 

and reception-aged children 

learn to recognise simple 

words. You can organise games 

by their educational focus, such 

as maths, communicating and 

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Comics in the Classroom 

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about history. They support the 

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and are interactive – children 

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Sand:box by SmellyMoo (search 

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older children about physics 

and chemistry. The user can 

‘play’ with different materials 

and see how they react with 

each other. 

If you do let your child 

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Getting back into hot water 

Whoever tells you that it was better in the 

old days is wrong. Well, they’ve not had their 

boiler break down in the middle of a cold 

snap. There is a reason Victorian’s didn’t 

build homes with open-plan living spaces. 

A reason I was alerted to this week as my 

boiler finally shuffled off this [mortal] heating 

coil. 

It’s true that you don’t miss something until 

it’s gone. Heat is most definitely one of those 

things. Suddenly my home, which I always 

consider an inviting and cosy space, seemed 

hostile and inhospitable. The transformation 

was immediate and stark. Even an open fire 

didn’t seem to make much of a difference. 

I wonder how we coped (and yet I grew up in 

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the time and so you’d think I’d remember!) 

Mercifully my stint as an extra from Oliver 

was short-lived. The boiler was replaced 

within 48 hours and I am pleased to confirm 

that I no longer resemble a pitiful Victorian 

urchin. 

Was that all a little dramatic? Well, yes, 

though it’s amazing how significant these 

things can feel in the moment. The removal 

of the comfort of life has an unsettling effect. 

It reminds you that for all of our development 

and sophistication our basic needs are still 

primitive. 

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leads us to take for granted the simple things; 

the essential things. It reminded me of an old 

hymn I knew from my childhood “count your 

blessings, name them one by one, and it will 

surprise you what the Lord has done”. 

This is not a call to positive thinking as such: 

There’s a hollowness to that which doesn’t 

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find the roots of a relationship that is far 

better. 

Have a great month. 

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The Society’s final debate for 2017. ‘Abrahamic 

religions are compatible with Western 

Liberalism’ was proposed by Richard Ackland. 

Judaism, Islam and Christianity, in particular, 

often imitated and integrated with the 

pantheistic, largely amoral Graeco-Roman and 

Nordic religions, replacing their hierarchical 

system of major gods (Zeus or Woden/Odin, plus 

a number of sub-gods with specific roles) with 

the Trinity and ‘specialist’ saints. The new 

religion was designed to attract converts by 

being compatible with the old. The writings of 

Aristotle, translated by Arabic scholars during 

the Middle Ages, posed another serious 

challenge to the Abrahamic belief in truth 

through divine revelation rather than strict logic. 

The Damascene Jewish intellectual Moses ben 

Maimon, the Islamic scholar Ibn Rashd 

(Averroes) and Thomas Aquinas - all 

Aristotelians – found ways to make logic 

compatible with faith. Richard then defined 

Western liberalism, a development from the 

mediaeval banking system, as the rule of the 

marketplace (capitalism) and, on a personal 

level, looking after Number One. But capitalism, 

high-finance borrowing and lending (or usury), 

is directly against Abrahamic teachings. 

However, all three religions have cleverly 

dodged round the problem; Islam’s Sharia 

financial models avoid the charging of interest; 

Christianity, traditionally forcing usury on the 

Jews, now approves parallel standards, 

separating religious principles from financial 

practice; the Jewish Torah sanctions interest-free 

loans to co-religionists – but interest may be 

charged to non-Jews. Dealing with the 

individuality of Western society has proved no 

problem for Abrahamic faiths. While the 

synagogue, church and mosque encourage 

regular communal worship and contact with 

religious teachers, many Christians are not 

churchgoers and are happy with a personal 

religion; the fragmentation of Protestantism 

into multiple churches means that today, people 

can go to Heaven by whatever road they please. 

Moslems meet at the mosque for Friday prayers, 

but also pray alone several times a day. Richard 

concluded that Abrahamic religions, because of 

their adaptability and compatibility, are more 

than able to co-exist with Western liberalism. 

Opposer Ian Payne opened by saying that 

Western liberalism has flourished only as 

religious ideologies have faded. Indeed, 

powerful religious ideas dominated our society 

throughout the past, making it very far from 

liberal. Persecuting and assuming the right to kill 

non-believers, 

from the Crusades to the current battle over 

Jerusalem and to inter-Abrahamic conflict’s 

explosion onto the streets of London, Paris, 

Manchester, are examples of religion’s far from 

liberal practices. Ian then discussed how religion 

resists liberal values. Both the Old Testament and 

the Quran insist that women are second-class 

citizens, supported by exemptions to our 

equality and employment laws. 

These exemptions should be removed. Ian said 

that the tenets of organised religion are often 

incompatible with liberalism, e.g. kosher and 

hal-lal slaughter; Catholic teaching on 

contraception and abortion; ‘honour’ killings; 

the fatwa on Salman Rushdie; promotion of 

discredited biblical and ‘creationist’ theories 

against scientific research. Religion continues to 

fight against liberalisation. There are challenges 

to press freedom – the Charlie Hebdo disaster, 

to freedom of religion, via apostasy laws that 

punish Muslims who leave Islam or people who 

leave Jehovah’s Witnesses, to democracy (26 

unelected bishops in the House of Lords) and 

to secular government (all schools must teach 

RE and have a daily prayers). Ian warned that 

we tend to dismiss acts of terrorism as atypical 

of true Christians or Muslims, in an attempt to 

accept views that coincide with ours. 

You cannot pick and choose, said Ian. Extremism 

is still part of religion. Ian concluded that most 

British people are non-religious, wanting to focus 

on this life, not a theoretical next. But Abrahamic 

religions want to prepare for the next world and 

the atrocities sometimes committed are part of 

them, and unfortunately not compatible with 

Western liberalism. 

The motion was won by 5 votes to 4 with no 

abstentions. The next debate, ‘It’s time to 

decriminalise sex work’ will take place on 

January 8th. at 8 p.m at the Old Coulsdon Day 

Centre. 

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NEW YEAR REVOLUTIONS 

The gadgets that’ll help you keep your promises in 2018 

It’s that time of year again. The gyms will soon be 

full of New Year’s resolutions, running like mad on 

treadmills. People will be signing up for all kinds of 

self-improvement, but within a few months many 

of them will have changed their minds. So how can 

you make sure you stick to the promises you made 

yourself about 2018? Technology is here to help. 

There’s been an explosion in fitness technology 

over the last few years. The most attractive fitness 

gadget is Apple’s Watch Series 3 (£329), which 

you can keep on while you swim as well as when 

you run, and thanks to apps it can help motivate 

you in all kinds of ways: it can deliver workouts or 

track your everyday fitness, and it can even turn 

ordinary activity into a game with its steps, distance 

and calorie tracking. Third party apps can deliver 

punishing 7, 4 or even 1-minute workouts if you’re 

short of time, and there’s a whole host of apps for 

tracking your food intake and other health factors 

too. 

Some of the best fitness gadgets are designed for 

specific activities, such as TomTom’s Runner 3 (£220). 

As you’ve probably guessed from the name it’s for 

runners, with built-in GPS, heart rate tracking and 

music playback to make your efforts more bearable. 

It’s suitable for weight training and swimming too, 

and the battery lasts for about 3 weeks between 

charges. 

If your resolutions were more about mental 

wellbeing, there are plenty of phone apps to 

help you. The free Mindfulness App (available 

for Apple and Android) can help you meditate to 

escape everyday stress, while Headspace (iPhone 

and Android, free with in-app subscriptions) has 

attracted millions of users with its newcomerfocused 

approach, rewards system and a clever 

buddy feature that enables you to share progress 

and motivation with your friends. 

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too. One of the world’s favourite such apps is 

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Available for Apple and Google devices, it’s free, 

with a £7.99 pro-subscription offer. The big plus 

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OLD COULSDON D-DAY HERO AWARDED FRENCH LEGION D’HONNEUR 

Ken Mead had just turned 17 when he found himself delivering vital ammunition to the 

D-Day beaches. The last thing on his mind then was the thought that 73 years later, now as 

a sprightly 90 year old, he would receive one of France’s highest awards, the Chevalier de 

Legion d’Honneur, for his part in liberating Europe. Yet this is exactly what happened on 11th 

November at a Ceremony at the French Residence when the French Ambassador made the 

official award on behalf of the President of France to Ken and six other WW2 Veterans. 

Ken has clear memories of those days in 1944 when his ship would deliberately run 

aground on the beach for offloading, refloating on the next tide in order to go and collect 

more of these urgent resupplies. He recalls a sense of well organised and calm determination 

as they simply got on with the job in the face of the death and destruction around them. 

As a Gunner in the Merchant Navy Ken had also been much involved in bringing vital 

supplies across the Atlantic to the UK in the face of horrendous casualties caused by German 

submarines. By the time that he left the Merchant Navy aged just 20, Ken had been all around 

the World and had experiences of life and death that are hard to imagine for successive 

generations, thanks to the sacrifice of his generation. 

Ken feels honoured by the award but is in no doubt that the real heroes are the 

many hundreds of thousands of Service Personnel who never came back, including his two 

Uncles who were killed in Norway in 1940 and now lie side by side in the War Cemetery near 

Narvick as Brothers aged just 20 and 22. 

There were many VIPs at the Ceremony, including Minister of Defence Lord Howe, 

the French Ambassador and a couple of French Admirals who were most interested to learn 

of Ken’s experiences. Ken was accompanied by his Wife Marie, to whom he has been married 

for 68 years, and by four friends and fellow Rotarians: Colonel John & Mrs Ann Power and 

Mr Alan & Mrs Carole Skinner. He and Marie live in Old Coulsdon where he remains an active 

member of the Rotary Club of Coulsdon Manor, who are immensely proud of their oldest 

member. 

Point of contact: Colonel John Power (Parachute Regiment), close friend and fellow member 

of Coulsdon Manor Rotary Club, 020 8660 3735 / 07785 253957, john.c.power@btinternet.com 



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McLaren 

720S 

by James Baggot 

I’ve just exited a roundabout – one 

I’ve left many times before in a 

variety of cars – and I’m heading 

down a familiar straight; I know 

it leads to a 90 degree right and 

yet more well-sighted, beautifullysurfaced 

road, but this time it’s 

different. 

I’m sat behind an exquisitelycrafted 

steering wheel, in a plum 

pudding purple leather cabin, and 

things are happening faster than 

they’ve ever happened before. 

Behind me, a 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8 

is converting 710bhp into forward 

thrust that has to be experienced 

to be believed. 

Just a look at the numbers gives 

an indication of what the new 

darling of Woking has in its arsenal: 

60mph in 2.8 seconds, 124mph in 

7.8 seconds and 186mph in 21.4 

seconds. That’s a lot of numbers 

that need perspective. Take the 

124mph time as just one example: 

that’s just a few tenths slower than 

a Volkswagen Golf GTD manages 

to hit 60mph. In the same time, the 

720S is doing double that speed. 

Double. 

While those figures give you some 

reference, what they can’t explain 

is the feeling that translates 

to when you’re sat behind the 

wheel. The g-force such explosive 

acceleration exerts on your body 

under foot-to-the-floor power is 

like a roller coaster, like free falling 

from a plane as the world becomes 

a blur in your peripheral vision. 

Braking is sharp, shockingly sudden 

and painfully precise. 

The McLaren takes countryside 

sweepers, motorway miles and 

quick changes in direction and road 

surface in its stride. It’s incredibly 

capable and a huge step on from 

the 650S it replaces. Steering is 

pinpoint direct, well weighted and 

trembling with pins and needle-like 

feedback. 

The seven-speed automatic 

gearbox rifles through gears like 

a sharp shooter - OK, maybe at 

load speeds it can be a bit grabby 

as shunt through the transmission 

is felt in the cabin, but at speed, 

in maximum attack, it’s rapid, 

slick and enjoyable. The rocker 

mechanism to the paddles is a joy 

too. Pull one and you can feel the 

other move away from you, and 

vice versa. It’s a classy touch. 

Unfortunately it’s not all good 

news. The electronics, while much 

better and easier to use than the 

cars they have featured in before, 

are still buggy. Our test car warned 

us of impending suspension failure, 

when it was fine, and of power 

steering catastrophe, again when 

there was nothing wrong. You 

wouldn’t forgive that on a car 

costing a tenth of a price, let alone 

one knocking on a quarter of a 

million pounds. 

The second disappointment is the 

noise. It’s all sucking, blowing and 

wind roar - there’s no start up, high 

speed thrum, or deep bellowing 

exhaust note. Just a rush of air 

intake and utterly ballistic forward 

motion. OK, it’s no Tesla, all silent 

propulsion, but then at the same 

time it’s no rival for Ferrari’s now 

equally-muted, but still much 

better, 488 soundtrack. 

Thankfully, the out-of-this-world 

looks make up for some of those 

foibles. The dramatic doors stop 

petrol station punters in their 

tracks as you arch them skyward. 


It can feel like you’ve live-paused 

passers-by in a TV show, their 

mouths slowly drifting towards the 

floor as they wake back up. Rarely 

does a car send pedestrians into 

a dreamlike state quite like this 

McLaren. 

Huge air scoops, slits and slants 

in the bodywork add to the visual 

drama, while also playing an 

important part in directing the 

huge gulps of air the revised power 

plant needs to keep it cool. Sadly 

McLaren still has a lot of work to do 

in wiggling its way into the public 

consciousness - as much as those 

we encountered fell instantly in 

love with it, few knew what brand 

it belonged to, let alone which 

model it was. 

But back to what the McLaren 

does best. I’ve got dials turned to 

slippery sport mode, and Wales to 

cross. The rain is just starting to 

cover the road with a glistening 

dew-like coating and the 720S is 

twitching in the bends, squirming 

as it hunts for traction. It’s palmdampening, 

but exciting, and 

about to create a journey that’ll be 

indelibly marked on my memory. 

This McLaren may not be quite 

perfect, but my word is it getting 

incredibly close. 

THE KNOWLEDGE 

Model: McLaren 720S 

Price: £218,020 

Engine: 4.0-litre, twin turbo V8 

Power: 710bhp, 770Nm 

0-60mph: 2.8 seconds 

Top speed: 212mph 

Economy: 26.4mpg 

Emissions: 249g/km

Baked Pears with 

Cinnamon Oat 

Topping 

You can use any pear variety for this winter 

warming fruity pudding. Serve with custard 

or crème fraîche and a drizzle of 

warmed honey, if liked. 

Ingredients: 

• 4 medium-sized firm pears 

• 150ml apple or orange juice 

• 50g unsalted butter 

• 75g rolled oats 

• 50g Demerara sugar 

• 25g walnut pieces, chopped 

• 1tsp ground cinnamon, plus 

extra to sprinkle 

Serves 4 

Ready in 1 hour 

TIP 

This recipe will work just as well 

with crisp eating or cooking 

apples instead of the pears. 

1. Preheat the oven to 180C/Fan 160C/gas mark 4. 

Halve the pears lengthways and scoop out the 

cores with a teaspoon. Place the pear halves in a 

shallow ovenproof dish, cut-side up. 

2. Pour the apple or orange juice into the dish and dot 

the pears with half the butter. Cover loosely with 

foil and bake in the preheated oven for 20 minutes. 

Meanwhile, melt the rest of the butter in a small 

pan then remove from the heat, add the oats, 

sugar, walnuts and cinnamon and stir to combine. 

3. Remove the foil and spoon the oat mixture over 

the top of the pears. Bake the pears, uncovered, 

for a further 20-25 minutes until tender with a crisp 

topping. Serve warm, sprinkled with a little more 

cinnamon, if liked. 


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The French 

Ardennes 

French Ardennes, Meuse valley, Monthermé 

Montherme©D.Truillard 

In north-eastern France, the 

Regional Nature Park of the 

Ardennes rises towards the 

Belgian border, festooned in 

hills and vales, fast-flowing 

rivers, dramatic rocks, lush 

hedgerows and deep forests 

home to wild boar and 

deer. Haunted by ancient 

legends, laced with trails and 

glorious views, it is largely 

undiscovered and a haven for 

nature lovers, covering 117,000 

hectares. 

Trekking, cycling, horse riding, 

kayaking or sailing on the 

rivers, there are myriad ways 

to explore and maybe spot 

the beavers at work, a black 

stork or a peregrine falcon, a 

black woodpecker or a hazel 

grouse sitting on a branch. 

Wild orchids and carnivorous 

sundews peep here and there 

and golden broom and purple 

heather splash colour on the 

higher slopes. The scenery is 

forever changing but most 

endearing is the green finger 

of land pointing north and the 

valleys of the Meuse and its 

tributary the Semoy. 

Tumbling down from the 

Belgium uplands, the Semoy 

meanders through verdant 

countryside on its way to 

the Nature Park across the 

border. There, from the 

village of Hautes-Rivières 

to the confluence with the 

Meuse, a 20km long cycle 

path follows every bend of 

the river, punctuated by rocky 

outcrops and viewpoints such 

as the ‘Cross of Hell’, a name 

which leaves plenty to the 

imagination. By clear weather, 

you might just see the Croix 

Scaille, at 503 metres the 

highest point in the French 

Ardennes. 

The Meuse meanders on and 

on, revealing its most stunning 

panoramas when you follow 

the trails along the crest. For 

many visitors, the true icon 

of the valley is Monthermé, 

nestling crescent-shaped 

at the tip of a peninsula, 

stretching out like a green 

dragon’s tongue as the river 

almost closes a perfect loop. 

The water glistens as blue as 

the sky and densely wooded 

hills roll as far as you can see 

in all shades of green. A path 

climbs through the forest to 

a series of precipitous rocks 

where you can look down on 

Monthermé and one of the 

most spectacular river loops in 

France. 

In the distance the silhouettes 

of the ‘Four Sons of Aymon’ 

rise on a rocky ridge above the 

village of Bogny. According to 

legend, the knights escaped 

from Charles the Great on a 

magic horse, taking refuge 

in the Ardennes where they 

were turned into rocks. In this 

fantastic landscape legends 


By Solange Hando 

abound, from the Devil’s 

Castle to the Spinner’s Bench 

or the rocks of the Ladies of 

the Meuse, petrified for being 

unfaithful during the crusades. 

In the spring, Monthermé 

comes into its own with a 

popular festival dedicated to 

the legends of the Ardennes 

and the ‘little people’ who 

hide among the rocks. 

Festival over, it is time to 

ramble along the trails, 47 

of them from easy strolls 

to more demanding climbs, 

criss-crossing the park all the 

way to Givet at the northern 

tip, taking in the star-shaped 

citadel of Rocroi, the lakes, 

the laurel forest and the 

slate route around Fumay. 

The people of the valley are 

proud of their heritage and 

that includes the industry 

which remains a valuable 

source of income. Just like the 

wartime memories, it is part 

of the Ardennes but in this 

little corner of France, off the 

beaten track, you’ll discover 

sleepy villages of yellow or 

blue-tinged stone, fortified 

churches, castles, abbeys or 

isolated farms with a beautiful 

backdrop of verdant hills and 

valleys.

CR5 

CODEWORD 

Each letter in this puzzle is represented 

by a different number 

between 1 and 26. The codes for 

three letters are shown. Once you 

have filled these throughout the 

grid you can start guessing words 

and reveal other letters. As you 

find the letters enter them in the 

box below. 

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A 

Answer on page 88 - no peeking! 

Don’t Drive into Trouble Abroad 

Every January, sure as night follows day, magazines 

come stuffed with pull-outs for summer holiday 

destinations. 

It’s also that time when lesser known TV channels 

air programmes like “Drunk Brits Abroad” or “Costa 

Del Hell”. You know the kind of thing: footage of 

inebriated young Brits thinking that they can get away 

with whatever they want to on holiday, as they are 

abroad. Usually the shows finish with a post-script 

of how wrong they are, with nights in cells, court 

appearances and fines. 

If you plan to drive on your holiday, perhaps taking 

the car to France, or hiring one in some other sunny 

location, be aware that, increasingly, local prosecutors 

are upping the ante when it comes to prosecuting 

foreign drivers who incur traffic offences. 

In the last few years applications to the Home Office 

from foreign prosecutors to pursue traffic offences 

made by UK registered drivers have risen 12 fold. For 

example, in 2014 less than 150 applications were made, 

yet 2016 saw that number top 1,600. 

The likely rise is down to recent EU laws requiring 

nations to share a driver’s details; it works both ways 

of course. The UK will pass details of law-breaking 

foreign drivers back to their home country too. 

This stance is unlikely to change with Brexit either, 

since Switzerland has also signed up to the agreement. 

So, gone are the days of “What happens on the 

N1, stays in France” as the Gendarme L’Auto (not 

sure if such a thing exists, but it sounds more exotic 

than French Traffic Police) could now pursue your 

misdemeanours even after your return. 

By Iain Betson 


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COULSDON LIBRARY 

It’s free to join the library and nearly 

everything is free to borrow. 

Adults and teens can borrow up to 25 items, 

children up to 15. 

We have free wifi, free use of PCs and access 

to the internet for up to two hours per day. 

Online at http://www.croydonlibraries.com/ 

online-library/, library services are 

available 24/7, with a digital library of 

audio and e-books to download. 

Online Library | Croydon Libraries 

www.croydonlibraries.com 

For Children 

Rhymetime. Wiggle and Jiggle, Grandparents 

Storytime, Craftytime, 

Rock & Rhyme. Storytime. 

For Adults 

Adult Colouring & Dot-to-Dot, Adult Reading 

Group, Knit, Stitch and Crochet group, 

Free one hour one-to-one IT help sessions 

Free one-to-one Ancestry computer sessions. 

Opening Hours 

Monday 9am-6pm, Tuesday 9am-6pm, 

Thursday 9.30am-6pm, Friday 9am-7pm 

and Saturday 9am-5pm. 

Coulsdon Library at 167 Brighton Road, 

Coulsdon, CR5 2NH, 

Tel 020 3700 1007; 

email: croydon.coulsdonlibrary@carillionservices.co.uk 

PETS 

Dealing with Cat Flu – 

It’s Not Just a Winter Bug 

Cat flu is potentially one of the most serious 

illnesses your cat can suffer and in some cases is 

life-threatening. Kittens in particular are at high 

risk, so it’s important to vaccinate as soon as 

possible, usually at nine weeks and then on an 

annual basis. 

It’s not only a ‘winter bug’ as human flu tends to 

be – it can be transferred between cats at any 

time of the year. This is why, if your cat stays in 

a boarding cattery, you should make sure it’s 

one that only accepts cats from owners with 

proof of vaccination. 

What symptoms should you watch out for? 

Common symptoms of cat flu include: 

• Sneezing • Coughing 

• Runny nose • Dribbling 

• High temperature • General lethargy 

• Loss of appetite 

• Sore or partially-closed eyes 

Helping your cat through this serious illness 

The vet may prescribe antibiotics if your cat 

has a secondary bacterial infection, which is a 

common occurrence with cat flu. Apart from 

that, however, wiping the cat’s eyes and nose 

with a warm clean cloth soaked in salt water 

can help. 

Regularly washing their bedding, and making 

sure water bowls are cleaned several times 

a day with hot water, also helps to prevent 

re-infection once your cat begins to improve. 

Cats with flu often lose their appetite, so having 

plenty of nice food to tempt them to eat is 

a good idea and also helps to build up their 

immune system after they’ve recovered. 

https://www.bluecross.org.uk/ 

pet-advice/cat-flu 

https://www.petplan.co.uk/ 

petplan-together/seniorcat/can-cats-get-colds. 

asp 

By Ann Haldon 


WORDWHEEL 

Using only the letters in the Wordwheel, you have ten 

minutes to find as many words as possible, none of which 

may be plurals, foreign words or proper nouns. Each word 

must be of three letters or more, all must contain the central 

letter and letters can only be used once in every word. There 

is at least one word that uses all of the letters in the wheel. 

TARGET 

Excellent: 56 or more words Good: 43 words Fair: 37 words 

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Review Of The Year 

CR5 Review of the Year Quiz 

1. Along with a portrait of Jane Austen, the new Bank of England 

ten pound note features a foil image of which cathedral? 

2. Beginning with the letters "I" and "M", what were the names of the 

two category five hurricanes of the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season? 

3. 14 years after being voted first in a 2003 book called Crap Towns: The 50 Worst 

Places To Live In The UK, which city was the UK City of Culture for 2017? 

4. An international football match in October saw three players with what first 

name playing for England despite no one of that name playing for them 

anytime from 1955 to 2014? 

5. First used in the 14th century and used by Kim Jong-un in September to 

describe Donald Trump, what six-letter word is defined by the Oxford English 

Dictionary as "an old person, especially one who has become weak or senile"? 

6. Of the three acts to headline the Pyramid Stage at the 2017 Glastonbury 

Festival, name the only one not to have won a Brit award. 

7. Which city hosted the 2017 Invictus Games? 

8. Name the two parties who won more seats in the 2017 general election than 

they did in 2015, but with fewer votes overall. 

9. In April, which boxer became WBA World Heavyweight Champion after beating 

Ukraine's Wladimir Klitschko at Wembley Stadium? 

10. Who said in July that she was "moved and honoured" after councillors 

unanimously agreed to make her Manchester's first honorary citizen? 

Answers on page 88- no peeking 


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Answers on page 88 


Got a new camera for Christmas 

and now want to get the best 

out of it? Why not make a New 

Year's resolution to come along 

to our club and start pushing your 

photographic limits in a friendly, 

helpful atmosphere? 

Les says "This is a close up image 

of an Indonesian Tree Frog 

photographed on a Macro Photography 

Experience day. 

I love the sleepy look and how the 

image turned out." To see more 

nature images why not come 

along to our Natural History 

Competition on 16th Jan? 

DIARY 

9th Jan "Portraits" talk by Douglas Kurn 

16th Jan Natural History Competition 

23rd Jan Practical Workshop 

30th Jan Colour Print Competition (2 of 3) 

We meet each Tuesday evening (7.45pm for 8pm) 

in Cameron Hall, Canons Hill,Old Coulsdon. 

Visitors £5 (refunded on joining). 

Visit oldcoulsdoncameraclub.org.uk, see us on 

facebook or contact 

lynda@oldcoulsdoncameraclub.org.uk 

Bird’s Eye View, December 2017 

John Birkett, RSPB Croydon Local Group 

As we prepare for the Christmas festivities 

perhaps it is time to reflect on how species of bird 

visit your garden. 

We are all probably familiar with Robin, Blackbird 

and Blue Tit as well as the pigeons that hoover 

up the bird food on the ground and the Crows 

and Magpies. In recent years the chances are that 

Ring-necked Parakeets have moved in as well. 

But what else turns up? 

If you have bird feeders you could observe the 

ever changing panoply of birds during the day. 

Those pesky parakeets may hog the feeders for a 

while, but when they move off the other birds can 

come in. Blue Tits, certainly, but how about those 

with lots of black about the head? He larger ones 

will be Great Tits and those with a patch of white 

at the back of the head are Coal Tits. Then there 

are the ‘little brown jobs’. Surely they should be 

sparrers. Check again; those with white patches 

in the wings should be Chaffinches. And a flash of 

yellow in the wings and a red face are sure signs 

of goldfinch, a species that has become more 

commonplace in gardens. 

You may be lucky enough to have thrushes visit 

your garden, but during the winter the ones with 

a creamy stripe above the eye are Redwings and 

if they have a grey head you are looking at 

Fieldfares. 

All these species, as well as others, regularly come 

into gardens during the winter. We are always 

pleased to welcome people to participate in our 

ongoing survey of Croydon’s birds, which helps us 

to monitor our local avifauna. The RSPB Croydon 

Local Group also has a team of speakers who can 

give illustrated talks about birds to local 

organisations. 

For more information about the activities of the 

RSPB Croydon Local Group, including our bird 

survey and the talks, look at http://www.rspb.org. 

uk/groups/croydon/ 

If you do see anything interesting, please let us 

know. Perhaps come along to one of our meetings 

to tell us about it or email me: 

johnbirkett@hotmail.co.uk or you can record 

them on the Croydon Birders website: 

http://croydon-birders.wikia.com/wiki/Latest_ 

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Across 

7. Vegetable (6) 

8. Not including (6) 

9. Set of two (4) 

10. Marvellous (8) 

11. Mumbles (7) 

13. Type of lizard (5) 

15. Concerning (5) 

17. Fortress (7) 

20. Garden visitor (8) 

21. Egg shaped (4) 

23. Venus for example (6) 

24. Getting older (6) 

Down 

1. Couch (4) 

2. Colourful bird (6) 

3. G.P.s (7) 

4. Passenger boat (5) 

5. Sporty (6) 

6. Scatter (8) 

12. Keeps you dry (8) 

14. Checked cloth (7) 

16. Emergency (6) 

18. Worshipped (6) 

19. Closes (5) 

22. Female relative (4) 

Review Of The Year Quiz Answers from page 85 

1.Winchester Cathedral (where Jane Austen is buried),2.Irma 

and Maria, 3.Hull, 4.Harry, 5.Dotard, 6.Radiohead, 7.Toronto, 

8.The Liberal Democrats and Plaid Cymru, 9.Anthony Joshua, 

10.Ariana Grande (honoured due to her response to the 

terror attack at her gig at the Manchester Arena) 

Kids Answers from page 86: 

Noel (Gallagher) in the Goal, Adele down the Well 

Ed (Sheeran) in a Shed 

Word Ladder: Jet, Pet, Pen, Pan, Fan, Fin 

CR5 Codeword Answers from page 83 

Crossword answers from above - 

Across: 7 Potato, 8 Except, 9 Pair, 

10 Terrific, 11 Mutters,13 Gecko, 15 About, 

17 Citadel, 20 Hedgehog, 21 Oval, 

23 Planet, 24 Ageing. 

Down: 1 Sofa, 2 Parrot, 3 Doctors, 4 

Ferry, 5 Active, 6 Sprinkle, 12 Umbrella, 

14 Gingham, 16 Urgent, 18 Adored, 

19 Shuts, 22 Aunt. 


CR5 Trip Down Memory Lane 

Bradmore Green, Old Coulsdon was the scene of a meet of horses and hounds in 1912. 

The postcard was sent to the well-known Robert Vigar at Caterham by the photographer and 

shows Bradmore Farm to the left. 

Are you interested in local history? Then why not join the Bourne Society. 

Apply to : J Hurrion, 7 The Towers, Hayes Lane, Kenley, CR8 5YL www.bourne-society.org.uk 

New Year Resolutions 

Why make new year resolutions that you won’t keep? 

Research suggests that by the end of February 90% 

of people have given up. Ask your local gym. The 

question is, Why? There are a number of reasons but 

let’s look at a couple of them. 

The first one is overload. Some people start the new 

year in a burst of enthusiasm and give themselves 

10, 15 or 20 resolutions to keep. It’s too many to 

focus on and keep track of so they give up after 3 or 

4 weeks and feel they have failed. 

The second one is that the resolution is too vague, 

or too big, or too remote. So people will decide they 

are going to lose 3 or 4 stone by the end of the year. 

Sounds good but it falls down in all three areas, 

vague, big, remote. 

If you want to keep your new year resolution(s), it is 

better to make one, two or at most three and work on 

them patiently. You are far more likely to achieve one 

or two resolutions than 10 or more. So keep it simple 

is rule no 1. Then keep them specific, achievable and 

short! 

So, if you want to lose weight far better to say, “ I will 

lose 1 pound a week for 13 weeks.” At the end of 13 

weeks even if you have only lost say 5 or 6 lbs, you 

have seen some progress that will motivate you to 

reset the target. Say you decide you will again lose 

a 1lb a week for 13 weeks. That way you are much 

more likely to keep going and if you reset your target 

every 13 weeks, even if you only lose that 5 or 6 lbs a 

quarter, by the end of the year you will have lost 20 to 

24 lbs. That will motivate you to continue. 

The way to keep your new year resolution(s) is to 

choose only one, two or three things to achieve, then 

break it down into 13 week segments, at the end of 

which you can review and adjust as needed. 

A suggestion? Well, why not make 2018 the year you 

resolve to start or further develop your relationship 

with God? Does God exist? Does God love you? 

What difference will it make to your life if you have a 

relationship with God, and through God a relationship 

with other christians? Start by reading (or Google) 

the bible book of the apostle John, chapter 3, verse 

16. Then why not try out one of the 9 churches in 

Churches Together in Coulsdon? 

Why not make it your resolution for 13 weeks, then 

you can review and reset it. You may be pleasantly 

surprised and find you enjoy spending time at church. 

For 2018 resolve to be resolute about your 

resolutions! 

GCI Coulsdon Community Church meets at 11.00am 

on Sundays In Coulsdon Community Centre Upper 

Hall. For further information please contact Pastor 

Brian Smith coulsdon@gracecom.church or 

01798 813133. To receive daily e-mail messages 

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FREE page for local charities and non-profit making organisations 

Affected by cancer? 

The South East Cancer Help Centre is a 

charity that over the last 25 years has 

helped thousands of people affected by 

cancer. 

Come and talk to us and explore 

the ways we may be able to help you 

whether it be through information, 

counselling or the wide range of 

complementary therapies we offer. 

Talk to us, 

we’re here to help. 

Call 020 8668 0974 for more information 

or visit www.sechc.org.uk 

Our facilities have local NHS recognition 

and provide a friendly, supportive 

environment with only one purpose – 

to help you cope. 

2 Purley Road (Tesco Development), Purley, Surrey CR8 2HA. Registered Charity No.1011509 

Old Coulsdon 

Trefoil Guild 

Trefoil Guild is guiding for adults – fun, 

friendship and making a difference. 

Even if you have never been involved in 

either guiding or scouting, there is always 

a warm welcome for anyone who likes the 

idea of learning something new, 

travelling, meeting new people or getting 

involved in local Guiding and Scouting 

projects. 

We meet on the 2nd Wednesday of each 

month 7.30 – 9.30 pm in the Guide Hut, 

Coulsdon Road, CR5 1EA 

For further information call Sandra Ash on 

01883 349633 

or email sandra_p_ash@yahoo.co.uk 

1st Coulsdon Explorers. 

For boys and girls aged 14 – 18 

Are you a scout or guide looking to move up to 

the next stage? 

You are welcome to start linking with us from 

age 13 and a half. 

We also welcome young people who have not 

been involved with scouting before but would 

like to give scouting a go. 

Feel free to join us on a Monday evening from 

8:00pm to 9:30pm. 

Contact: johnreed@coulsdonexplorers.org.uk 

Or andyfenwick@coulsdonexplorers.org.uk 

www.coulsdonexplorers.org.uk 

At Richmond Hall, Lion Green Road CarPark, 

Coulsdon, Surrey, CR5 3BP 




The RSPB Croydon 

Local Group 

Monthly Illustrated Wildlife Talks in 

South Croydon 

Whitgift Sports Club, Croham Manor Road - 

off Croham Road, South Croydon, CR2 7BG 

Second Monday of each month, 2pm and again at 8pm. 

Admission £4.00. Everyone is welcome, not just RSPB 

members. 

Free refreshments. A selection of RSPB goods, nuts & 

seeds are on sale. 

Parking limited on site but free in adjacent roads. 

64 & 433 buses stop nearby in Croham Road. 

Monday January 8th 2018: 

“Filey Bay”. Mark James Pearson, an ornithologist 

based at Filey Bird Observatory in North Yorkshire, tells 

us about Arrivals and Departures at this North Yorkshire 

hotspot where migration never stops. 

For more information contact John Davis 

on 020-8640 4578 

or see www.rspb.org.uk/groups/croydon 

Note: on request we give illustrated bird talks to local 

organisations. 

1st Coulsdon Scout Group 

Fourth Drive, CR5 2YP 

Scouting for boys and girls 6-14 yrs 

Beavers for boys and girls 6-8 yrs 

INFO: alastair51@talktalk.net 

Cubs 8-10½ yrs 

Scouts 10½ - 14 yrs 

INFO: rodjbavin@yahoo.co.uk 

View Croydon District Newsletter on: 

www.croydonscouting.org.uk 

Hall Hire Available: contact emma@ccfworld.com 


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25 th Purley (St. Mark’s) 

Scout Group 

JUMBLE 

SALE 

Saturday 

3rd February 2018 

From 1pm – 3pm 

at 

St. Mark’s Church Hall 

Church Road 

Purley CR8 3QQ 

We look forward to seeing you all at this very popular event. 

Entrance only 50pence 

THANK YOU for Supporting the 25 th Purley Scout Group. 

For donation info, updates and in case of adverse weather, 

please visit our web site at www.25thpurley.org.uk 

"LADIES WANTED" 

Would you like to join our friendly 

mixed table tennis club. We start 

our new season at the Coulsdon 

Community Centre, 

Chipstead Valley Road, Coulsdon on 

the 8th September 9.30-11.45. 

Please contact either 

Marion 01737 553914 

or Pat 01737 554441 

THE ARTS SOCIETY CROYDON AREA 

Formerly Croydon Decorative & Fine 

Arts Society 

Meet Monthly (2nd Thursday) at 10.15 

All Saints Church Hall, Sanderstead 

We are looking for like minded people 

that are interested in Art. 

We have expert lecturers to do the talks. 

11th January Let the Games Begin. 

The Cotswold Olympics rebound 

For further details phone 0208 657 2496 or 

email janice.brunger@outlook.com 




VOLUNTEERS URGENTLY NEEDED 

The Old Coulsdon Centre (for the retired) is an independent 

registered Charity supported by Croydon Council. 

It is dependant upon the support of volunteers in order to 

maintain the valuable services that it provides. We are 

desperate for volunteers to help as escorts on our mini bus 

and also within the Centre. An escort assists the passengers on 

the mini bus supported by a driver whilst help in the Centre is 

to provide a service to our clients. 

The following support is needed: 

Mini Bus 

Mini Bus 

Mini Bus 

Centre 

Mondays (2 hours am) 

Tuesdays (2 hours pm) 

Wednesdays (2 hours pm) 

Mondays (12 noon to 2 pm) 

Two volunteers can always share a duty and then it is 

only a commitment every two weeks. 

For more information, without commitment, contact Iris, 

Centre Manager, on 01737 554386. 

Old Coulsdon Centre (for the retired) 

Grange Park, Coulsdon Road, Old Coulsdon CR5 1EH 

Charity No: 1147569 

Alternate weeks 

If you like getting out into the countryside, and 

visiting interesting places, with friendly people. 

COME AND JOIN US ! 

We are a Rambling Club , who do :-- 

SUNDAY RAMBLES ( 8 to 12 Miles) every 

Sunday 

MIDWEEK WALKS (4 to 8 Miles ) two per 

month 

INTEREST VISITS & AMBLES in and around 

London (1 to 4 Miles) two per month 

We also have a COFFEE MORNING, 11am on 

the 2nd Monday of every month, Croydon 

Clockhouse Cafe in Croydon Central Library. 

Come and have a coffee and a chat, and find 

out all about us !! 

OR Pick up a Programme in your local 

Library. 

For further information, visit our Website 

-- www.croydonhf-ramblingclub.org 

Charity Classic Car Run 22 April 2018 

organised by The Rotary Club of Croydon Jubilee 

We Start 

the Annual Classic Car run at Denbies Wine Estate, London Road, Dorking, Surrey RH5 6AA and take 

a stunning route over two counties through the high grounds of Surrey Hills and country lanes of 

parts of “Old Surrey & West Sussex”, incorporating the most beautiful villages and hamlets. Picnic 

at one of the beautiful sights on the way or enjoy a lunch at one of the plentiful pubs. 

We end 

at Glorious Goodwood Motor Circuit, Chichester, West Sussex, PO18 0PH. Nestled at the foot of 

the Sussex Downs just a few miles from the sea, the track is the only circuit in the world to 

remain entirely in its original form. Should you wish to have a bite at Goodwood it has the 

Aero Club and NAAFI wagon. 

The entry price 

is £45 which includes the car, the driver, one passenger, a run pack, route guide and finisher’s 

plaque. Additional passengers are £15 each. Space is limited to 150 cars. 

All surplus will go to local charities 

Closing date for entries is 19 April 2018 

Contact details: dhiraj@dsandco.com croydonjubilee@virginmedia.com 

Tel: Dhiraj 020 8686 7757 (9am - 5:30pm) 020 8654 4545 (6pm - 9pm) 

Tel: David 020 8688 0273 (6pm - 9pm) 


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Coulsdon Networking Club PURLEY LIT 

TALKS 

Launched in 2016 Coulsdon Networking Club has 

been a great success. 

The club is about local businesses coming together 

over a coffee and a pastry once a month and 

exchanging business ideas, helping each other and 

of course giving referrals. 

We meet in I Calabresi on Chipstead Valley Road at 

9.30am every third Tuesday of the month. Please 

join our Facebook group or follow us on Twitter. 

Regular attenders will get publicity via both of these. 

Please feel free to come along and join us. 

You can join the Purley Lit at any talk or 

ring Yvonne Walker 01737 552654. 

Held in URC hall, Brighton Rd 

(next to Purley Hospital) starting at 8pm. 

Visitors £5. 

More details on the web site: 

www.purley-literary-society.com 

Coulsdon Networking Club 

@CNetworkingclub 

Tuesday 9th January 2018 

Russell Bowes will be giving a talk on 

“The tale of the Tulip” 

Tuesday 23rd January 2018 

David Chave will be givig a talk on “DNA 

Profiling and Murder Investigation” 

Old Coulsdon District 

HELP NEEDED 

Rainbow Leaders 18+ for rainbow unit 

for girls age 5-7 needed in Old Coulsdon 

Can you spare max. 2 hours a week 

term time? 

Free training given. 

Good fun and very rewarding 

Contact District Commissioner 

jackiesidwell@btinternet.com 




Coulsdon and Purley Debating Society 

Angela Applin vs. T.B.C 

Have a lot of FUN ! 

‘It’s time to decriminalise 

sex work’ 

Monday, January 8th. at 8 p.m: 

OOld Coulsdon Day Centre, Grange Park, 

Old Coulsdon. 

Get outdoors 

Learn new skills 

We meet on the first Monday 

of each month at 8pm and we’d love 

to welcome visitors and new members. 

Make new friends 

Contact : Sonya Dyer 

sonyadyer@blueyonder.co.uk 

Mondays 

6.15 to 7.45 pm 

Try new things 

Tel : 01737—553004 

Text : 07900—281949 

24th PURLEY SCOUT GROUP : Rear of Hillars Heath Road, Coulsdon CR5 2JP 

Contact Angela Applin, 

020 8668 8558. 

KENLEY ART GROUP 

Wednesdays 10am - 12 noon 

Satrting 7th February 2018 

Kenley Memorial Hall, Godstone Road 

All abilities welcome and we are a very 

friendly group so why not come and join us 

£17 for 10 sessions 

Including coffee & biscuits 

For Details, Call Audrey 01737 555025 


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We meet at Soper Hall in Caterham on the second Tuesday of 

each month for talks and demonstrations by well known Artists. 

Meetings start at 7:30 p.m. (Winter meetings start at 2:30 p.m.) 

Annual Membership is £25 Visitors £4 

If you enjoy Art why not join this friendly group and exhibit 

your paintings at our Easter Exhibition and on our web site. 

Coming events from our 2018 Programme 

January 9 th Jonathan Newey Demonstration Buildings / Architecture 

February 13 th Soraya French Demonstration Flowers Acrylics 

March 13 th Max Hale Demonstration Still life Oils 

March 29 th - April 1 st 

Annual Easter Exhibition 

May 8 th Carole Massey Demonstration Ballet Dancers m/media 

June12 th Keith Morton Portrait Acrylics 

For more details please visit our Web site: www.tandridgeartsociety.org.uk 

or contact Colin Parish - membership secretary on 01883 715663 

Welcomes lively over 40's 

to social events including 

barbeques, theatre, walks, 

meals etc. 

New members evening – 1st 

Thursday of the month at 9pm 

Contact: 

Linda 020 8668 1382, 

Glenn 020 8656 9007, 

Shirley 020 8651 5835. 

email: info@companyclub.co.uk 

www.companyclub.co.uk 

South West London Law Centres 

(SWLLC) is an independent registered 

charity providing specialised legal advice 

and assistance to people who could not 

otherwise afford access to justice. 

If you need legal advice contact us on 

020 8767 2777 

or visit www.swllc.org 

We cover a range of areas of law including: 

IMMIGRATION & ASYLUM 

HOUSING 

DEBT 

COMMUNITY CARE 

PUBLIC LAW 

EMPLOYMENT 

WELFARE BENEFITS 

We also run free evening advice clinics 

throughout the week. 




IPad for Christmas? Need lessons? 

Beginner iPad training 

Saturdays 10:30 -11:30am BOOKINGS 020 8668 4189 

COMPUTER TRAINING 

PC, Laptop, Tablet (iPad & Android) 

Staying Put (Croydon Council) 

Help to live in own home 

Family Law Advice (Free) 

(Streeter Marshall) 

Advice Services Croydon (ASC) 

& Age UK Croydon (Free) 

Legal & Will Advice (Free) 

(Streeter Marshall) 

Nail Cutting 

(Age UK Croydon) 

Tax Help for Older People (Free) 

CAP Job Club (Free) 

By appointment 

(tailored to your specific needs) 

Mondays (By appointment) 

Between 10.30 am -11.30 am 

Monday 8 th (By appointment) 

1.00 pm – 2.00 pm 

Tuesdays (By appointment) 

10.00 am – 12.00 noon 

Wednesdays (By appointment) 

1.00 pm – 2.00 pm 

Wednesday 10 th , 17 th , 24 th & 31 st 

10:15am – 12:45pm 

& every Thursday (By appointment) 

10.30 am – 12.30 pm 

Mondays (By appointment ) 

10.30 am – 12:00 noon 

Mondays starting Jan 29 th 

12 noon – 3pm 

Some services by appointment/referral and others drop in surgeries 

Centre Opens Monday to Friday 10.00 am – 2.00 pm 

………………………………………………………………..……………………………………………………………………………………………… 

…….. 

Open Mondays - Fridays 10am - 2pm 

24 High Street, Purley, Surrey, CR8 2AA 

020 8668 4189 

info@purleycrosscentre.org 

www.purleycrosscentre.org 

Provided by 


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INDEX OF ADVERTISERS 

•Accountancy/Finance 

LJ Accounting 49 

One Financial Solutions 73 

Tax Data 70 

•Aerials / Satellite 

Communitech 31 

•Architectural Services 

Jameson Architectural Services 53 

•Blinds/Curtains 

JT Blinds 59 

Mobile Curtain Studio 14 

Opal Interiors 18 

Surrey Blinds 19 

•Building Services 

AVACO Scaffolding 6 

Exclusive Extensions 43 

MJ Building Services 51 

SN Building Services 53 

Taylors Building Services 17 

•Care Services 

Right Care For You 53 

Sunrise of Purley 25 

•Carpentry 

Ben Saunders Carpentry 77 

•Carpets/Flooring 

Carpets 4U 34 

CSL T/A Coulsdon Flooring Co 20 

Janes Flooring 30 

•Childrens Clothing 

Trendy Lane 77 

•Cleaning 

Brite N Breezy 30 

Ovenu 68 

Surrey Carpet Care 69 

•Computer Services 

Computer Solutions 65 

Fahy Consultancy 47 

Plum Planet Computer Tuition 49 

•Counselling 

Your Life Matters 68 

•DVD 

Carlton Video 35 

•Education & Tuition 

Italian Tuition 6 

Laleham Lea School 12/13 

Oasis Academy Coulsdon 63 

Roger Graham Piano Tuitio 6 

•Electrical/Electrician/Supplies 

BGW Electrical Contractors 58 

Eco-Electrical 61 

Michael Steele Electrician 51 

RAFF Electrical 54 

Surrey Electrical Services 47 

Wandle Electrical Services 21 

Watt Electrical Services 39 

•Estate Agents 

Daniel Adams 1 

John Brown 100 

Park & Bailey 2 

•Gardening Services 

Absolute Gardens 31 

Aralia Tree Services 49 

CJ Gardening 35 

Daisy Garden 68 

Emsworth Tree Care 71 

Expertrees 18 

Gaskells Gardens 17 

Little Oak Treecare 47 

Manor Gardens 36 

•Health, Hair & Beauty 

77 The Hair Salon 15 

Coulsdon Opticians 74 

Foot Health Centre 30 

Hair by Rachel 75 

Ivy Arch Beauty 55 

Jane Naylor-Maury Osteopath 29 

Mobile Nails by Tamsin 50 

Old Coulsdon Osteopathic Clinic 57 

Reactive Beauty 15 

Relax Therapy 22 

Slimmin World 9 

•Hotel 

Coulsdon Manor Hotel 33 

•Interior Design 

Opal Interiors 67 

•Kitchens/Bathrooms/Bedrooms 

Dream Doors 41 

•Locksmith 

Alpine Lock Services 46 

•Logs 

Alsted Manor Farm 54 

•Motoring 

Car Body Solutions 60 

Coulsdon Auto Parts 19 

Robe & Hitchen 25 

Top Marks Tyres 14 

Wallace Automotive 38 

•Painter/Decorator/Supplies 

Paintsmart 22 

Southern Decorator Supplies 26 

•Pest Control 

BEE OFF Pest Solutions 49 

•Pets 

Anwells Veterinary Practice 26 

Little 4 Paws 71 

Sitting Purrfect 37 

Whoof Whoof Doggie Day Care 50 

•Photographer 

Andrew Franklin Photography 7 

•Plastering/Brickwork/Tiling 

KWS Plastering Services 45 

SWS Plastering 36 

•Plumbing & Heating 

Dapson Heating & Plumbing Serv. 46 

DV Services-Plumbing/Install 23 

GC Gas & Heating 75 

Jonathan Davidson Heating 43 

MPM Plumbing 71 

SE Services-Heating & Plumbing 29 

•Printing 

Advanced Print 45 

•Property Maint/Handyman Services 

1st Fix Maintenance Services 67 

David Tuppen Handyman 45 

Maiden Maintenance 55 

MJ Services ~Elect. & Plumbing 50 

Newhill Handyman 23 

RCB Maintenance 50 

Warwick Property Maintenance 66 

•Restaurants/Café 

Chez Vous 69 


Curry Leaf 38 

Karnavar 99 

Surrey National Golf Club 5 

•Roofing 

BB Roofing 60 

SG Roofing 65 

Tacey Roofing 6 

W.Brown & Sons 27 

•Scaffolding 

AVACO Scaffolding 6 

•Solicitor 

Beach Law 42 

Rowe Radcliffe 77 

Streeter Marshall 52 

•Sports & Recreation 

Ashcroft Pilates 59 

Bunny Hop Fitness 11 

Caterham Dance School 37 

Old Coulsdon Colts 37 

Spark Pilates 71 


•Stamp Collecting 

John Curtin Ltd 60 

•Upholstery/Furniture Renovation 

Croydon Upholstery 58 

•Vaping 

Vapepit 10 

•Venue Hire 

Chipstead, Coulsdon & Walcountians 

Cricket Club 21 

Chipstead Football Club 67 

•Weddings & Event Services 



•Windows & Doors 

Atlas Glass 3 

Selsdon Windows 79

Date: 

Thursday 

y, 18th January 

2018 

Time: 

Starts fr 

rom 5.30 pm to 10.30 pm 

Cost: £26.90 per person 

On the 18th 

January 

2018 at 

Karnava 

var we are hosting a 

Curryr 

Festival 

evening, 

with a 4 course menu. 

Reserv 

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now being taken 

Valenties Day 

Bo 

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now being taken

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